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Friday, March 16, 2018

Sruti Dharma Das, Temple president at Bhaktivedanta Manor has been diagnosed with a form of brain cancer. The news was unexpected as there had been no previous indications. Both his family and the temple community are adjusting to the news. Sruti Dharma had been facing various health complaints and his medical advisor spontaneously decided to run further tests beyond what was required. The results of those tests showed several lesions on his brain. He was then admitted to Charing Cross Hospital so that samples for a biopsy could be taken.

The test results confirmed it is cancer.

Over the next weeks and months Sruti Dharma will undergo both radiotherapy and chemotherapy supported by a host of holistic treatments. He has a superb team of health care professionals who are evaluating further treatments now available outside of the UK. During this time of treatment he requires to rest and recuperate. He is at home with family and still very much keeping up with temple matters and the construction plans for the Shree Krishna Haveli community facility.

His family is grateful for the unprecedented support from the community, and they remain optimistic. We ask everyone to respect the family's privacy at this time.

Meeting with the temple leaders he emphasized the need for all to go on as usual in the service of Lord Krishna, ‘We need to get the Haveli built and have many more years of service together. This is my test sent by God and I am determined to get a good grade. If you want to pray, pray that I may have the strength to serve you all in a way that pleases Lord Krishna’.

All messages and correspondence for Sruti Dharma Das can be sent to

vrajavasini@krishnatemple.com

Any matters regarding health care should be sent to sanjiv@krishnatemple.com

[PADA: First of all, PADA finds it hard to understand why anyone would want to participate in a "Vedic Teaching Program" which teaches: (A) Krishna is God, and therefore, (B) God's "guru chain" or parampara / His acharya's / successors / and "shaksat hari" (same as God) guru lineage contains: drunkards, gamblers, sexual predators, molesters, criminals and even orchestrators of murders. Yep, Krishna is God and therefore His successors are often -- sexual predators, deviants, criminals and debauchees. What kind of "Vedic Religion" teaches that nonsense?

Then again, we are told that the Havelli Hallway being constructed is mainly to perhaps promote Hindu weddings and other Hindu programs, to make more money from the Hindus. Really?

One of the exiled people connected to the Manor process says that the Prabhupadanuga devotees are banned and exiled and not allowed to even enter the property. And! The Bhaktivedanta Manor program has become exclusive promoters of the GBC's "illicit sex with men, women and children (and taxi driver's)" acharya's process. Swell. So the Manor is being used to promote the illicit sex acharyas program, in the name of Krishna? Isn't that fraudulent mis-representing of Krishna, to say God's guru successors are a pack of sexual predators, molesters, debauchees and deviants?

Yet another former citizen of ISKCON says, its no wonder their people are falling down, getting sick and even dying prematurely. They are preaching a horribly deviant idea, that God is a "saksat hari tvena" (same as) debauchee and criminal, because that is what His successors often are.

I am not sure what to say here?

Anyway, someone else said, lets hope they do not replace him with an even worse leader. This guy is the best of their lot, although he is still God-awful for promoting their sexual predator acharya's lineage, but knowing the GBC, his replacement could be miles worse. ys pd]

Claims GBC has shunned and banned their advertising.What is going on here?

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ISKCON NEWS SITES BLACKOUT

Which brings me to why I bothered to write this Note in the first place. Most of these stories and other stories related to Food for Life Global are flatly ignored by ISKCON’s main news sites (ISKCON News and Dandavats.com), and quite frankly, I am perplexed as to why.

They never publish them!

Therefore, I am humbly seeking guidance from the devotee community as to why you think this might be happening? Is there something I need to change or improve in my life to fix this? Is my personality too controversial for ISKCON news?

I am particularly seeking feedback from senior devotees and those that have known me for a long time. So if you are tagged in this note, please know that I am hoping and praying for your advice. Your servant,

[PADA: We still cannot figure out why the IRM mainly uses printed and mailed copes of its magazine and not digital editions. It makes it harder to reach a larger audience. Some devotees might get it mailed to them, some might not, its simply not easy to find a copy for a lot of folks.

Anyway, the good news is that Krishna Kanta Desai and the IRM are finally catching up to speed with PADA's strategy. In 1997, Yaduraja, Krishna Kanta, Adridharana, Kamsa Hanta et al. all told me that PADA was "too heavy handed with its language and tactics, and it has out-lived its usefulness. We need to make a new strategy, and we will do that by sitting down and forming a cooperative association with the GBC's gurus like Jayapataka and Hrdayananda, and convince them to be ritviks etc." Really?

As such, PADA's editor needs to completely stop: the book changes lawsuit, the child abuse issue, and most importantly -- drop the poison issue. And PADA's editor needs to retire in the Caribbean and sit on the beach while these IRM folks "negotiate a new beginning with the GBC." That is also what the IRM folks argued about the book changes lawsuit at the time; it is not needed, the IRM is going to "negotiate a deal" with the GBC's gurus to have the originals printed.

OK, and we said at the time, this is sentimental dreaming in color, none of these compromising proposals will amount to any substantial changes. Worse, our prediction that people like Adridharana would end up in big legal troubles in India came true, he had to go into hiding when the GBC foisted apparently false charges on him.

FAST FORWARD to the present time of 2018 and voila!, the IRM is now saying what we at PADA have said all along, the GBC's guru hoax is producing hellish consequences, and it has been all along. And nowadays, the biggest argument is: which of these hellish consequences is more hellish than the other? This is the main question being asked nowadays.

We have the banning, beating, assaulting, molesting, suing and murders of various Vaishnava devotees issue.

We have the "alienated most of the second generation" issue.

We have the lawsuits, including one that bankrupted the society.

We have the bad publicity issue.

We have the changed books issue.

And did we forget the poison complaint of Srila Prabhupada issue?

And yes, we have the empty temples issue with not enough manpower.

And lest we forget, the whole GBC idea since 1978 is, Krishna's successor gurus and acharyas are often falling down deviants, if not perhaps debauchees, drunkards, sexual predators and criminals. All of these and more are the results of the hellish guru hoax.

Someone showed me the "Mayapura Guru Services" paper, teaching the proper guru tattva and the parampara system to the newer people. Yep, how did you guess, the guru parampara from God is full of nasty things like -- flies, bugs, mice, rats, cock roaches, deviants, sexual predators, sewage spills, garbage, dope heads, drunkards, .... who knew? So this is one of the perhaps most hellish results, they are attacking the guru parampara full time, all the time, 24/7.

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2) HITLER-ANUGAS UPDATE

PADA: Yes thanks prabhu, I checked out your link where Mukunda UK has become a sort of resident "contributing writer / consultant" on some pro-Nazi sites. Yes I see, he is saying Hitler is a righteous warrior, ... and so was Jesus when he whipped the money changers? Yes, he is clearly working with these people who say the UK immigrants (Hindus?) are terrible. Umm, yep we need to rid ourselves of the people who worship Krishna around here!

Worse! Mukunda's is the superior race? Because his race kills and eats animals, makes giant factories, and aborts their babies? Where is any of this taught in the Vedas? I pointed this out a long time ago, Mukunda is advertising mundane speakers using photos of Srila Prabhupada and Krishna and so on.

Right, but I do blame in part people like Sanat / Prahlad / Gavin Swinden and others who encouraged Mukunda's melt down when they said we were wrong to challenge his Illuminati / Zionist / advertising mundane speakers program. They defended his process and attacked us. So when we said, maybe lets pour some cold water on this hot mess, these thinkers said -- no, lets pour some hot explosive petrol on this mess. Yep, and look at the results!

These folks clearly wanted this Illumi-nutty thing to grow and grow and grow into a much bigger crisis. And it did. As one ex-kuli said, these guys are just like the GBC, experts at making a huge mess, not so expert at cleaning it up. Anyway! While meditating on WW II, don't forget, we become what we meditate on and worship, and go there in our next life!

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3) TORBEN NIELSEN UPDATE:

Right. Good question. Torben says its easy for anyone to find a living diksha guru, and in fact any of Srila Prabhupada's original disciples can be one. Why has he and his pal Kim Moller not taken initiation from anyone of them in decades then, and they never tell us what their initiation name is or even if they found such a living guru?

Yes, there are tons of diksha gurus out there, its easy to find one, but they themselves cannot find one since 1978? What is the hold up? It looks like they are going to die waiting to find their living guru, meanwhile at least the ritviks know who their guru is? Basically, Torben is saying that the ritviks should do what he is doing, not have any guru at all.

Of course Srila Prabhupada says that when a person does not name their guru, they have made themselves their own guru. Why does Torben think he is his own guru? Sorry, in the Vedic process a person has to name their guru or they are mayavadas, or they are their own guru etc.

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4) Gaura Govinda Maharaja

GGM folks are still promoting his mayavada idea that we do not originate with Krishna.

angel108b@yahoo.com====================================Hearing about material things is the root cause of material existence:

SB 10.7.1-2 King Parīkṣit said: My lord, Śukadeva Gosvāmī, all the various activities exhibited by the incarnations of the Supreme Personality of Godhead are certainly pleasing to the ear and to the mind. Simply by one’s hearing of these activities, the dirty things in one’s mind immediately vanish. Generally we are reluctant to hear about the activities of the Lord, but Kṛṣṇa’s childhood activities are so attractive that they are automatically pleasing to the mind and ear. Thus one’s attachment for hearing about material things, which is the root cause of material existence, vanishes, and one gradually develops devotional service to the Supreme Lord, attachment for Him, and friendship with devotees who give us the contribution of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. If you think it fit, kindly speak about those activities of the Lord.PURPORT-As stated in the Prema-vivarta:kṛṣṇa-bahirmukha haiyā bhoga-vāñchā karenikaṭa-stha māyā tāre jāpaṭiyā dhare Our material existence is māyā, or illusion, in which we desire different varieties of material enjoyment and therefore change to different varieties of bodies (bhrāmayan sarva-bhūtāni yantrārūḍhāni māyayā [Bg. 18.61]). Asann api kleśada āsa dehaḥ: [SB 5.5.4] as long as we have these temporary bodies, they give us many varieties of tribulation—ādhyātmika, ādhibhautika and ādhidaivika. This is the root cause of all suffering, but this root cause of suffering can be removed by revival of our Kṛṣṇa consciousness. All the Vedic literatures presented by Vyāsadeva and other great sages are therefore intended to revive our Kṛṣṇa consciousness, which begins to revive with śravaṇa-kīrtanam. Śṛṇvatāṁ sva-kathāḥ kṛṣṇaḥ (Bhāg. 1.2.17). Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and other Vedic literatures exist simply to give us a chance to hear about Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa has different avatāras, or incarnations, all of which are wonderful and which arouse one’s inquisitiveness, but generally such avatāras as Matsya, Kūrma and Varāha are not as attractive as Kṛṣṇa. First of all, however, we have no attraction for hearing about Kṛṣṇa, and this is the root cause of our suffering.

But Parīkṣit Mahārāja specifically mentions that the wonderful activities of baby Kṛṣṇa, which amazed mother Yaśodā and the other inhabitants of Vraja, are especially attractive. From the very beginning of His childhood, Kṛṣṇa killed Pūtanā, Tṛṇāvarta and Śakaṭāsura and showed the entire universe within His mouth. Thus the pastimes of Kṛṣṇa, one after another, kept mother Yaśodā and all the inhabitants of Vraja in great astonishment. The process to revive one’s Kṛṣṇa consciousness is ādau śraddhā tataḥ sādhu-saṅgaḥ (Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu 1.4.15). The pastimes of Kṛṣṇa can be properly received from devotees. If one has developed a little bit of Kṛṣṇa consciousness by hearing from Vaiṣṇavas about the activities of Kṛṣṇa, one becomes attached to Vaiṣṇavas who are interested only in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Therefore Parīkṣit Mahārāja recommends that one hear about Kṛṣṇa’s childhood activities, which are more attractive than the activities of other incarnations, such as Matsya, Kūrma and Varāha. Wanting to hear more and more from Śukadeva Gosvāmī, Mahārāja Parīkṣit requested him to continue describing Kṛṣṇa’s childhood activities, which are especially easy to hear and which create more and more inquisitiveness.

Akshaya Patra’s first kitchen in London serves 2,000 vegetarian meals to poor students and the homeless. At Kentish Town in northwest London, around 40 poor men queue up for a paper plate of steaming vegetable stew and rice. “It’s a life-saver in this freezing cold,” explains Andrew Moran, 53, one of the group. “A lot of people would starve otherwise.”

No one is aware an Indian charity is funding their meal.

For the past two years, Akshaya Patra Foundation UK / Europe focus has been on fundraising to help pay for 1.6 million midday meals for schoolchildren in India. But the Indian charity has now turned its attention to the poor in Britain.It has opened its first kitchen in London and started serving 2,000 nutritious vegetarian meals per day for free to students and the homeless.

Next, it will expand to schoolchildren, the elderly and hospital patients. Half a million children go to school hungry in the UK, 70,000 of whom live in London.A 2,000-sq ft. makeshift kitchen has been carved out of the basement of a building in Holborn where members of the UK charity "Food for All" make vegetable stew, pasta, and superfood porridge.

Akshaya Patra has teamed up with the charity to cook and distribute the food in vans and by rickshaws to three feeding points in London for homeless people, and to SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) and LSE (London School of Economics) for poor students.

“Food for All had the manufacturing licences and experience. We will scale it up and make it more organised,” says CEO Bhawani Singh Shekhawat. The philosophy is the same as that used to create mid-day meals but recipes are suited to the local palate. “We don’t offer sambar but it is still ayurvedic, protein-balanced food with no additives and we don’t re-heat,” he adds.

Last summer, as a pilot the charity offered meals to 100 schoolchildren at a holiday club at Newham Catholic College. In the UK three million children go hungry during the holidays. “There are families of six living on a food budget of £80 a month who cannot afford to feed their children. Many working parents send their children to these holiday clubs with a bag of crisps. The last meal they had was at 6pm the night before. It is the responsibility of the state but there is a lack of funding,” says Shekhawat.

At the kitchen, Parasuram Das, who founded Food For All and is the head of manufacturing at the Akshaya Patra UK project, is delighted. He had emailed Goldman Sachs the day before, introducing himself as a new bank next door to theirs — except his was a “food bank.” “The next morning they were down here seeing how they could help,” he says. As we speak someone from a building company working on the construction of Goldman Sachs’ new London offices arrives and offers to pay for all the paper plates worth £250 a week and a £35 sack of dal a day.

Das goes around supermarkets each evening collecting wonky vegetables, short-dated products and supermarket surplus which he uses to make dishes. He also receives donations from wholesalers who supply Indian supermarkets in the UK.

[PADA: It has been reported to PADA that Parasuram and his Food For Life workers have been banned from Bhaktivedanta Manor. Of course, if someone like Sivarama swami, Bhakti Chaitanya Swami or Janananda Maharaja et al. want to come there and preach the bogus GBC's standard idea, that Lord Krishna's guru parampara successors are often deviants, sexual predators, drunkards, drug addicts, criminals implicated in murders, people who eat chicken salads and so on, the residents of Bhaktivedanta Manor all fall down and kiss their feet there.

Then Bhakti Chaitanya swami lectures that he and the other leaders are not experiencing the ecstasy of Lord Chaitanya, well no kidding, because you are preaching that the guru successors to Lord Chaitanya are drunkards, sexual predators and debauchees. You folks are attacking Lord Chaitanya since 1978.

In other words, apparently at least, only those leaders who preach that God's guru successors are often fallen and debauchees are most welcomed in ISKCON there. Or what? Parasuram prabhu should also link up with the London Prabhupadanugas who are doing Saturday harinama there, these people need to join together and form a support group and make an independent process there. ys pd]

Monday, March 12, 2018

https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the-crazy-sex-cult-that-invaded-oregon?HOLY MOLY!Inside the Crazy Sex Cult That Invaded OregonThe new Netflix docuseries ‘Wild Wild Country’ tells the true story of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, a guru who sought to create a metropolis in rural Oregon by any means necessary.=========================[PADA: "Wild and crazy," hee hee! Yes, possibly what can happen when people think they are God and / or God's living guru spokesman. Wild and crazy? Same response we sometimes get when we tell "regular folks" about the GBC's guru's exploits. This might make a good case study of how things can really go off the rails when people start to declare themselves as divine Godly beings -- when they are not. ys pd]